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Chapter 18 SS Test

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What was the Ghost Dance? What effect did the Ghost Dance have on the Army? What effect did the Army's response have on the INdians?
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What was Little Big Horn?
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What killed thousands of cattle? When did it happen? What did it do to the cowboys way of life?
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What was the cattle kingdom?
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Who was the primary workforce for each company?
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What was Wounded Knee?
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What was the the United States policies and promises made towards Native Americans?
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What were the challenges of the Homestead Act?
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What problems did the cowhands face?
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Where did each start their piece of the railroad?
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Where did the two railroads meet? What date?
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What risks did the miners face?
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What did the US government do next?
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What is a reservation?
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What was the Grange?
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What was the role of women in the west? What affect did the role of women in the west have on their political rights?
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What was the Dawes Act? What did it do to Indian land?
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What is the significance of barbed wire?
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What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?
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What led to the cattle boom in the west?
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Treaty of Fort Laramie gave Indians a reservation that was their's and no one could go on it, which would limit Indian anger and fighting with the settlers. It also allowed roads, military and other posts to be established in the Indian territories.
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A social and educational organization for farmers
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Population growth led to increased demand for beef.
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A parcel of land given to the Indians by the government.
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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse didn't want to live on reservations so they were willing to fight. So they fought General Custer and won.
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The gov't gave land to settlers that was formerly Seminole Indian land. Over 50,000 settlers moved out west within a month
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Central Pacific - Chinese. Union Pacific - Irish.
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Unsually severe winters of 1868 and 1869 killed off thousands of cattle and effectively ended the Cattle Kingdom.
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Stampedes, blazing hot weather, duststorms and blizzards. Limited prairie grass.
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The government broke the treaties and made new treaties limiting the Indians to less and less land.
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Injury or death from unsafe machinery, explosions, fires, cave-ins and lung disease.
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Did the chores, worked on newspapers, cooked, cleaned, and with the Homestead Act, could own land. Women's rights increased.
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stay on land for 5 years while farming it - build a house in 6 months.
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Encouraged Native Americans to be more like white settlers, be educated, citizens, become farmers, give up hunting, tried to make land ownership private, failed to deliver citizenship, took 2/3 of Indian land.
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Wovoka created - claimed he died while chopping wood and God told him that if he did the dance that all the whites would die and the dead relatives would come back to life. Army thought it was a war dance, asked for Indian weapons to be turned over.
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Spreading from Texas to Canada in the Great Plains where ranchers raised cattle.
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Massacre of unarmed Indians due to the Army's lack of understanding of the Ghost Dance.
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Central Pacific started in Sacramento, California and Union Pacific started in Omaha, Nebraska
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Promontory Point, Utah. May 10, 1869.
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Fences off the land and no one can get through, forcing cattle drives to become longer, competition between farmers and ranchers led to fights over land.
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How much did a cowhand earn?
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Where did cowhands sleep?

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